| Typically, the patterned coverage about Africa includes grim statistics about starving children coupled with archetypical images of sullen young faces and swollen bellies. We're not going to focus on painting that dire portrait this time.
BLOG POSTS  | Kathy Calvin: Global Motherhood: Harnessing Mobile Technology To Improve Children's Health
Every year, more than 3 million newborns die during their first month of life. This year alone, more than 7 million children around the world won't make it to the age of five. While these numbers are sobering, there is hope: Most of these deaths are preventable, and we already have the tools to help stop them. |  | Nalini Saligram: Including Non-Communicable Diseases in the Rio 20 Dialogue on Sustainable Futures
If the aim of Rio+20 is to create a better future, we're missing an enormous opportunity to address one of the biggest challenges we're facing today: non-communicable diseases (NCDs). |  | L.A. Diaz: Dwyane Wade Provides Parents of Sick Child a Much Needed Assist
Demetrius Flores will likely never remember the day he met Dwyane Wade. That afternoon, in the pediatric ward of Miami's Baptist Children's Hospital, the cherub-faced four-year-old is cranky and exhausted. |  | Fabien Cousteau: A Hopeful Start for Our Oceans
Our beloved bodies of water are now showing how fragile they really are. Whether we see oceans as a natural resource bank account, a key component of our health and well-being, or as a heritage for our children, it is imperative that we include them in our march to a better future. |  | Kari Stoever: New G20 Austerity Measures Required to Address Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a political disease. And like many neglected infectious diseases, it won't stay silent for long. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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